Palestinian Prisoners Week Tour: Palestinian Child Prisoners in Apartheid Israel’s Prisons with Nery Ramati, Human Rights attorney from Israel
To mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2018, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is proud to present a tour in which Nery Ramati, a human rights attorney from Israel, will discuss the issue of Palestinian child prisoners in Apartheid Israel’s prisons.
Celbridge – Wed 11 April – Celbridge Manor Hotel
Derry – Thur 12 April – Sandinos Bar, Water Street, Derry
Dublin – Wed 18 April – Academy Plaza Hotel, 10-14 Findlater Place (off O’Connell Street), Dublin 1
Every year, hundreds of Palestinian minors undergo the same scenario. Israeli security forces pick them up on the street or at home in the middle of the night, then handcuff and blindfold them and transport them to interrogation, often subjecting them to violence en route. Exhausted and scared – some having spent a long time in transit, some having been roused from sleep, some having had nothing to eat or drink for hours – the minors are then interrogated. Completely alone, cut off from the world, without a lawyer or other guardian present they are interrogated in manner that often involves threats, verbal abuse and physical violence. Its sole purpose is to get the minors to ‘confess’ or provide ‘information’ about others.
They are then taken to the military court for a remand hearing. In the vast majority of cases, the military judges approve remand, even when the only evidence against the minors is their own confession. These military courts, which are only used to try Palestinians, have a 99.7% conviction rate and have been repeatedly criticised by human rights groups as failing to meet international standards for a fair trial. The facts and figures all demonstrate that the rights of Palestinian minors’ are being regularly and systematically violated by Apartheid Israel.
About the Speaker
Nery Ramati is an attorney and partner in Gaby Lasky and Partners Law Office, a leading human rights office in Israel, specializing in freedom of expression and protest, and Ahed Tamimi’s lawyers.
He has been representing Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights and anti-occupation activists in Israel’s military (Occupied Palestinian Territories) and civil (State of Israel) courts for almost a decade. Mr. Ramati has been representing leading human rights defenders and activists from the Palestinian villages of the popular struggle movement, such as Bi’ilin, Nabi Saleh, Beit Ummar, Qadom and others. One of his most important achievements is raising the awareness worldwide on the issues of the ill-treatment of the Palestinian minors (children) in the military court system.